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It seems to me that the field can be understood as the scriptures, the body as well as the soul. For each case the grass is the meaning of scriptures that when practiced, traversed as it were by means of bodily labors (the body’s grass), it strengthens the body against the will of the flesh and...

If you have knowledge, understanding, wisdom or perhaps even revelations - these are the right eye - that cause you to become proud, it is better to pluck them out, humble your mind's haughtiness, assume ignorance and thus avoid the sentence of hell. If you have some good works, perhaps you are...

So religion is not the problem, but the inexperience of the... hand-cranker*? I assume you define religion as the starting process and running on gas the Grace of God? You know, like wax on, wax off? __________ * and of course the condition of the engine, old and rusty as it is because of...

Kill as in baptize them into Christ's death (Romans 6:3), which Peter did (Acts 10:48) and thus ate his spiritual food, doing God's will (John 4:34).

The Devil who has seven heads (Matthew 12:45) with which he rams the commandments of God (hence ten horns*), is the beast that was, as in having dominion over us, before Christ's victory on the Cross, is not since then and will yet to come for a short while before the second coming of Christ. In...

If I may offer my 2 cents... The demons are the spiritual locusts that destroy [1] the fruits of the Spirit; they eat our efforts, the leaves as it were, to practice God’s commandments through negligence and when they fail they attack the mature fruit through vainglory and by passing judgement...

In Colossians 2:12-13 St Paul speaks of baptismal regeneration as being a resurrection: 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and...

Why the future coming of Christ and not the first? Did not Christ plunder Satan, the spiritual King of Assyria (Isaiah 8:1-5) by means of the 'short work' of faith in Him (Romans 10:9) and by summarizing all of the law and the prophets in two commandments (Matthew 22:37-40)? Isaiah 10: (LXX)...

There are a few counter arguments that I could offer, to show that a healthy diet has no moral value, but then I remembered the following story and that changed my mind. Perhaps God accepts the food sacrifices that you offer Him on account of your good intentions; It will be a mistake for me to...

If I may… Willie put the word Laws in quotes, which suggests that he was speaking about the letter of the law as opposed to the spirit of the law. The latter, I’m certain he upholds, being a clean animal of the flock of Christ that ruminates on the words of scripture (chews the cud) until he...

That hasn't changed. The problem is when people measure health and well being in terms of a robust body and a comfortable life. God on the other hand, calls health and well-being a pure heart and a righteous way of life: Mark 7: 14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear...

If you are looking for a direct quote from scripture that differentiates the two kinds of teachings (if we take seed to mean word or teaching), then 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 comes to mind: 1 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ...

Which makes perfect sense, since the river Euphrates represents the virtue of justice. The work of justice and the source of all spiritual fruits (פרה) is to discern or divide (פרר II) what is good from what is bad and it perfectly relates to the sacrificial bull (פר III), Christ who justifies us.

You are right, in a prophetic/historic sense that is what those houses stand for. At the same time, they represent types of people based on their spiritual condition. The latter meaning is what I was focusing on in my first post, since it applies to us and therefore of more use than the historic...

That's right. LXX is the abbreviation for the Septuagint. :) I mentioned it because their association with sea is more evident than dragons, though there are a few verses that associate dragons with sea. As for their symbolic significance, sirens and fish in general are the passions related to...

The sower went out to saw his seed...? (Matthew 13:3-9) Beasts of the field, dragons* and owls, unclean animals of land, sea and air, are symbols of the evil characters of the nations, that St Peter the Apostle saw in a vision and who, along with the rest of the apostolic rivers, watered their...

Seed of man is the teaching that pulls down* the Babylonian towers of falsehood and idolatry and builds instead the Spiritual Jerusalem of the mind (Israel), where God is known and worshiped. Seed of beast is the moral teaching that afflicts* the body – and those of bestial manners - and plants...

The following... 'medicine' came to mind: 3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth and a protecting door about my lips. 4 Incline not my heart to evil words to make excuses in sins, With those who work iniquity; and I will not associate with the choicest of them. (Psalms 141:3-4) I'm not denying...

Wasn’t Protestantism the pesticide to the false teachings and practices (bugs) that plagued the Catholic Church? And wouldn’t you say that nowadays the medicine has become the pestilence, poisoning the life of the faithful (crop)? The question is, if someone were to offer you an organically...

The Septuagint makes no distinction between those rivers, referring to them as ποταμοί (plural). As for their symbolic significance, the four rivers of Eden can represent the four cardinal virtues that flow out of a single source, Christ the Wisdom of God. These virtues water the garden of the...